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Val-d'Oise: the rapist grandfather sentenced to fifteen years in prison

2021-01-12T15:53:04.308Z


At the end of three days of hearing, Luc B., 62, was sentenced by the Assize Court of Val-d'Oise. A decision welcomed by a great


Several years in prison await "Papy Luc".

Eaubonne's incestuous grandfather was sentenced to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment.

On Monday evening, the Assize Court of Val-d'Oise found him guilty of raping two of his grandsons, K. and G., who were aged 8 and 11 at the time and the considered the whole family to be a model grandfather, generous, kind, particularly exemplary.

Luc B. was also convicted of sexual assault by a person having authority over his young 16-year-old apprentice.

F., a particularly vulnerable young man, with a severe psychological and psychiatric handicap, under the influence of his apprentice master, had been attacked upon his arrival in the Monaco restaurant which the accused ran in Sannois, in March 2008.

He does not intend to appeal

Having already completed three years of pre-trial detention, the accused should not appeal the decision, his lawyer, Me Aurélien Gallochat, said on Tuesday.

The prosecution had called for the maximum penalty, twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

The court also accepted the incestuous nature of the facts, as allowed by the law since 2016, when the accused was not the real grandfather of the two children, although considered as such.

Opposite, on the bench of civil parties, the decision was greeted with immense relief, ending black years for a devastated family, which imploded under the violence of facts and then revelations.

Young K., now 22, collapsed on Monday evening.

It was he who ended up revealing having been raped by his grandfather during a violent altercation with his wife and his parents, launching the investigation which would lead to the trial.

Despite the absence of a confession, "this decision is a relief"

“The announcement of the decision was like a sledgehammer for him.

This was liberating, ”says Me Sandrine Paris-Heidegger, the family lawyer.

This young man, raped by his grandfather for about a year, a man who imposed masturbations and blowjobs on him, then lived through particularly difficult years, taking refuge in cannabis, also in the grip of suicidal tendencies.

"If you love me, come and help me die," he had once said to his mother over the phone.

In the end, the question of the penalty did not appear to be essential for the civil parties.

“The family did not discuss the length of the prison sentence.

What mattered to her was the conviction, ”continues Me Sandrine Paris-Heidegger.

“This decision is a relief, the culmination of a process that was long and difficult for the family.

A family which remained dignified until the end, which led a real fight which it won yesterday.

A suffering family which will now succeed in rebuilding itself because there has been the recognition of guilt.

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The lawyer does not elude that the family had requested a confession from the grandfather and that the latter has never admitted the facts since the first day of police custody, and throughout the three days of 'hearing.

“The fact that he remained silent and denied the facts made the trial painful.

He reiterated that the author was another person, that there was a conspiracy against him and that K. was a drug addict.

But the family has remained of great dignity without ever adding to it.

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Source: leparis

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